Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 4—Morgan County District Attorney Scott Anderson says he's seeing great things from a new initiative that keeps kids in ...

Top Stories from Aug. 11, 2026 MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile County schools are seeing a steady decline in truancy and chronic absenteeism rates year over year, according ...

Mariana Perez missed school more often last year than she does now. The eighth-grader in Maryland is part of a longtime Montgomery County program to help middle school students improve attendance and ...

Douglas County commissioners meet on Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Douglas County’s new truancy program will move forward despite lingering concerns about how it will serve students and families. Since ...

The new school year is underway, and there is positive news to report on truancy and chronic absenteeism in Mobile County.

An empty classroom is pictured in this stock photo. A local education leader is raising concerns that Douglas County’s proposed truancy program would replace direct services for families with a case ...

Efforts to improve school attendance in Bexar County are paying off, but fighting truancy remains a multimillion-dollar effort. In addition to school district-funded attendance personnel on each ...

Truancy is a pertinent issue in public education. However, the American public education attendance policy, specifically Fayette County’s, creates disparate policies for neurodivergent and struggling ...

The Helping Families Initiative connects students and families with intervention resources before issues reach the juvenile ...

Southeast Texas has contributed to a substantial increase in the number of state criminal truancy cases, and Texas has the highest number of cases in the country. According to Port Arthur Deputy ...